What is an implication wheel? Joel Barker joins Jim Blasingame to discuss inventing the new tool, the implication wheel, and how it can explore possible risks and opportunities of change before they happen in a structured, radial way.

How can you use the implications wheel in your business? Joel Barker joins Jim Blasingame to talk about the problem identifying implications wheel and how you can use it in your business, plus how it can benefit men in particular.

What does it mean to be a futurist? Joel Barker joins Jim Blasingame to define futurists and offer tips on how to become one for your small business, including reading outside your industry - and they offer some examples!

What is Malaysia doing to be more innovative? Joel Barker joins Jim Blasingame to talk about his visit to Malaysia and how that country is making a commitment to become more innovative by investing in innovation education.

Did you ever think you'd thank a roach? Joel Barker joins Jim Blasingame to discuss how advances in the study of the natural world, like cockroach brains, continue to benefit the lives of humans.

How competitive are America's universities? Joel Barker joins Jim Blasingame to talk about the new relationship between American universities and those in other countries, plus a new use for magnets.

Are you ready to rent a car by the hour? Joel Barker joins Jim Blasingame to discuss zip cards for renting cars as one of the latest market innovation, including how this idea presents opportunities for some and threats for others.

If you need an organ replacement in the future, you will be able to grow your own? Joel Barker joins Jim Blasingame to talk about medical breakthroughs resulting in growing a replacement liver or lung, for example, from the DNA of the patient.

Could a laser power planes in the future? Joel Barker joins Jim Blasingame to review a model helicopter that flies by the power of an infrared laser and how this power source could change the way we think about energy sources and applications.

Celebrating the life of an entrepreneurial leader. Joel Barker joins Jim Blasingame to celebrate the life of their friend, Tom Sawner, an American entrepreneur and business leader, who died suddenly this year having accomplished so much, but with so much yet to do. Don't take any day, or the people you love, for granted.